Clothes-line support.



G. YOUNG.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT. APPLIOATION FILED JUNE 7, 1913.

Patented June 23, 1914.

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GUSTAV YOUNG, OF WEST HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

CLOTHES-LINE SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed .Tune '7, 1913. Serial No. 772,325.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that GUsTAv YOUNG, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Nest Hoboken, county of Bergen, andState of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvementin Clothes-Line Supports, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact specification.

This invention relates to a class of devices adapted to be used inconjunction with clothes lines.

My invention has for its object primarily to provide a device, or formof support designed to be employed preferably upon the window of abuilding for permitting` a line to be adjustably carried thereon,whereby articles of clothing, or the like may be applied thereto by aperson within the building, and subsequently directed out of the windowfor exposure to the air as well as enabling the line and the articles tobe reversely guided' through the window and into the building forremoval from the line, thus overcoming the requirement for a person tolean outwardly of the window as is incident to the methods ordinarily inuse. This is accomplished mainly by providing a bracket which is securedexteriorly of the window, and to said bracket is removably mounted asupporting element, or bar. The bar is of sufficient length to extendthrough the window a desired distance interiorly of the building, andupon said bar is mounted a pulley which serves as a means for adjustablyand detachably carrying part of the line inside the building so as topermit the articles to be suspended therefrom. The line and the articlesare then directed through the window for exposure to the air after whichthe line is fastened to the bracket in a manner so that the bar may beremoved from the bracket.

Another object of the invention is to provide means serving todetachably secure the line to the bracket, to allow the line to bereadily re-adjusted upon the supporting bar so that the articles may bedirected back into the building for removal from the line, and a furtherobject of the invention is to provide an efficient form of device whichis susceptible of being made to combine great strength and durability.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawing forming a part of this specication in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views,the saidy invention being more fully described hereinafter, and thenpointed out in the appended claim.

'In the drawing, Figure 1 is a fragmentary view, partly in section ofthe window of a building and a post, with one form of clothes linesupport embodying my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the form of bracket employed in the device. Fig. 3 is an endview of the bracket. Fig. l. is a perspective view, partly broken away,of the supporting rod used in the device, and Fig. 5 is an end view of aform of clutch adapted to be employed in conjunction with the device.

The device, or clothes line support has a retainer, or bracket 10 whichis preferably applied to the exterior of the frame of the window, as 11,of a building, as 12. At a suitable distance from the building may beprovided a post, or other desired support, as 13, to which is held apulley 14, and over said pulley is movably guided a line 15 from whicharticles such as clothing or the like may be suspended for exposure tothe air.

The retainer, or bracket 10 has a supporting plate 16 which issubstantially L-shaped to provide two angularly disposed arms 17 and 18whereby the bracket may be lirmly secured upon the exterior part of theframe of the window by the use of screws, or otherwise being passedthrough a number of holes provided in one or both of the arms of theplate 16. Projecting from one surface of the arm 17 of the plate 16 ofthe bracket is an approximately rectangular extension 19 which istubular in form to provide a pas sage 2O therethrough. Upon the uppersurn face of the tubular extension 19 of the bracket 10 is a verticallydisposed flange 21, and upon the underneath surface of said extension isa similarly disposed flange 22. Both of the flanges 21 and 22 are spacedfrom the arm 17 of the plate 16, and at the corresponding ends of saidianges are provided two oppositely disposed lugs, or stops 23 and 24.

Adapted to be removably applied to the retainer, or bracket 10 whensecured upon the frame of a window, is a supporting element, or bar 25.The bar 25 is preferably substantially T-shaped, as viewed transversely,to provide a longitudinally disposed flat strip 26 and a cross-stripwhereby two oppositely extending lianges 27 and 28 are Patented June 23,1914..

formed upon one edge of the longitudinal strip. The longitudinal strip26 is longer than the flanges 27 and 28 whereby a projecting end 29 isprovided, and said projecting end is of a dimension to permit it to befreely inserted in the passage 20 of the tubular extension 19 as well aspermitting it to be readily removed from said passage. The T-shapedsupporting element, or bar 25 is of sufficient length to extend adesired distance through the Window and interiorly of the building whenthe bar is detachably applied to the bracket 10. To the crossstrip ofthe bar 25 adjacent to its end which is opposite to the projecting end29 thereof is a rotatable pulley 30, and serving as means to hold thebar 25 against accidental displacement when in use in an openingprovided in the strip 26 of the bar is movably heldpone end of a hook31, the other end of which is removably disposed through an eye 32 heldupon the interior part of the window frame.

In operating the clothes line support the line 15 is directed throughthe window, and one part thereof is guided over the pulley 30 after theprojecting end 29 of the T- shaped bar 25 is inserted in the passage 20of the bracket 10 and the hook 31 is fastened to the eye 32. Upon theline 15 at a suitable part thereof interiorly of the window is arrangeda carrier, or clutch, as 33. The clutch 33 is preferably of a formdisclosed in my pending application serially num` bered 763,777, andwhich has a body portion 34 provided with openings 35 and 36 at oppositeparts thereof. Extending from one side of the body portion 34 of theclutch 33 are two substantially L-shaped spaced flanges 36 and 37, andinteriorly of said body portion are two dogs 38 and 39 adapted to bemoved in unison back and forth transversely of the openings 35 and 36 byrotating the handle 40 of a locking cam, not shown, provided within thebody of the clutch. The line 15 is movably passed through the openings341 and 35 of the can rier, or clutch 33, and the carrier is disposed sothat its spaced flanges 36 and 37 will be in movable straddlearrangement upon the flanges 27 and 23 of the bar 25. To the parts ofthe line 15 interiorly of the window may be suspended the clothing, orother articles, as 41, and by directing the line outwardly of the windowthe articles which have been suspended therefrom will be moved throughthe window for exposure to the air, and other articles may then beconveniently applied to the line in a similar manner without requiringthe person to lean out of the window. Then a suliicient number of thearticles have been suspended from the line and disposed in the open airthe line is then locked to the carrier, or clutch 33 by rotating thehandle 40 accordingly for moving the dogs 38 and 39 into engagement withthe line. By subsequently removing` the line 15 from the pulley of thebar 25 and guiding vthe carrier, or clutch 33 along the bar so that theflanges 36 and 37 of the carrier will be in straddle arrangement uponthe flanges 21 and 22 of the tubular extension 19 of the bracket 10 thebar 25 may be removed if desired to permit the window of the building tobe closed. To remove the articles from the line the bar 25 isre-positioned in the manner above described. The carrier 33 is thenmoved from the bracket 10 to and along the bar 25 so that the line maybe again disposed over the pulley of the bar 25, and by directing theline inwardly of the window the articles will also be moved into thebuilding for removal from the line.

In the foregoing description, I have embodied the preferred form of myinvention, but I do not wish to be understood as limiting myselfthereto, as I am aware that modilications may be made therein withoutdeparting from the principle, or sacrificing any of the advantages ofthis invention, therefore I reserve to myself the right to make suchchanges as fairly fall within the scope of the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent In a clothes line support, the combination of abracket, a line supporting arm removably carried by the bracket, a lineclamp slidable on the arm and bracket, and adapted to be supported bythe bracket when the arm is removed from the bracket, substantially asshown and described.

This specification signed and witnessed this sixth day of June A. D.1913.

GUSTAV YOUNG.

Witnesses:

Roer. B. ABBOTT, It. J. ROBILLARD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D; 0;

